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8 stories from philmohun.com have been shared on Kiwi News since 18 September 2023, with 36 upvotes and 4 comments in total. The latest was shared on 6 May 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- Stealth Addresses
Stealth addresses are presented as a practical way to keep Ethereum transactions private, and the author says the Fluidkey product makes them usable. The article explains that stealth addresses let users receive funds without exposing their public key or transaction history, by giving senders a one-time-use address instead of a main account. The author says they previously created many accounts in Metamask to do this, which was hacky and poorly suited to managing balances. Fluidkey lets users log in with a single address, generate new addresses automatically, and view all balances from one dashboard, and it uses ENS so people can send payments to a readable name such as philm.fkey.eth.
- The Farcaster Flywheel
The article, a blog post adapted from a FarCon 2025 talk, argues that the best time to build on a social network is when it is still small, because early builders can shape its growth curve while later ones only ride it. It says Farcaster's growth depends on crypto, Ethereum and L2s compounding together, with distribution as the payoff. The author's tactics include keeping distribution strategies flexible while keeping products durable, building mini-apps daily users will open, and planning to move to other platforms such as Telegram or World once growth plateaus.
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- Wallet Security
This article offers practical crypto wallet security guidance for ordinary users, centered on self-custody and secure seed phrase storage. It recommends writing a 12-word seed phrase on paper stored offline and remembering where it is kept, and it suggests splitting a 24-word phrase into shards held by trusted friends or family. It also advises segregating assets into vault, main and burner accounts to limit scam exposure. The author states that a hardware wallet is not strictly necessary for most people, and that multisig setups, such as a 3-of-5 arrangement with three wallets controlled by the holder, reduce the risk of a single compromised account.
- The governance trap
Ben Horowitz argues that a16z's "shared economics with centralized control" model suits high-growth firms, because shared control complicates decisions and slows structural change. The article's author then applies this framework to DAOs, which it says emphasize shared control to avoid regulatory scrutiny. The article argues that this shared-control emphasis handicaps DAOs' economic potential, citing public blockchains' claimed 10x improvements in transparency and global access over traditional equity structures.
- Reflections on Purple
Purple, a Farcaster-associated DAO, is still active and funded by its daily auction, but the author argues it has not benefited from Farcaster's growth as much as expected. Since joining, Farcaster has grown about 50x and onboarded 320,000 new users, while Purple has added one member per day through its automated auction and now has 513 tokens across 388 wallets. The article reports a liquid treasury of about 28 ETH plus 12 ETH earmarked for small grants, with the token price barely moving. The author attributes the stagnation to high entry cost, difficult proposal processes, and an unclear mission, and proposes lowering the barrier to entry, giving small teams more autonomy, and clarifying the mission.
- Selected passages from Isaacson's Elon Musk biography
Excerpts from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography describe Musk's management style, which combined unrealistic deadlines with a demanding production process. Former SpaceX engineer Mueller says the sense of urgency pushed engineers to extra effort but also demoralized them, calling it Musk's biggest weakness, though he admits SpaceX still beat its peers and built the lowest-cost rockets in history. The passages also outline Musk's "algorithm," a five-step production method: question every requirement, delete parts and processes, simplify and optimize, accelerate cycle time, and automate last.
- Token Bound Accounts
Token Bound Accounts, under the proposed "Non-fungible Token Bound Accounts" standard, let NFTs own Ethereum wallets, so a token can control a wallet that holds other assets. The article says the approach works with any NFT, including those minted before the standard, and that it removes the need for snapshots because each NFT stays permanently linked to a wallet address. It also describes airdropping soulbound NFTs into a token bound account as a way to upgrade existing NFT collections, and says a single NFT on one chain can control wallets on multiple chains, which is useful in ecosystems like the OP Stack.